Meeting will now come to order. With your approval, I will act as chair and ask Jared Kichler of Stikeman Elliott LLP to act as secretary of the meeting and Amy Kam, representative of TSX Trust Company to act as scrutineer. I have received an affidavit from TSX Trust Company as to the mailing of the notice and access notice, directing the shareholders to online copies of the meeting materials, together with the form of proxy and voting instructions form as applicable. I direct that this affidavit, together with copies of the documents made available to the shareholders, be kept by the secretary with the minutes of this meeting. With the consent of the meeting, the reading of the notice of the meeting will be dispensed with. Business may be transacted at this meeting if two persons are present, holding or representing by proxy not less than 5% of the shares entitled to vote at the meeting. The scrutineer's report has been received and shows that there are present at the meeting 286 persons holding or representing by proxy 22,795,562 shares, or 10.214% of the shares which are entitled to vote at the meeting. There is a quorum of shareholders present at the meeting. I declare the meeting regularly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. I am advised that the total numbers of votes represented at the meeting by proxy that are required to be voted against any ordinary resolution which will be placed before the meeting is less than 5% of the votes attached to the shares entitled to vote and represented at the meeting. Accordingly, the vote for all resolutions put forward at this meeting, other than the election of directors, will be by show of hands. To efficiently run this meeting, and as permitted by the articles of the corporation, I will be proposing all motions identified in the meeting materials and will not be seeking a seconder. The first item of business is receipt of the financial statements of the corporation for the financial years ended December 31st, 2021 and 2020, together with the auditor's report thereon. Shareholders were mailed a notice package directing them to access online copies of the financial statements and other meeting materials using the notice and access procedures permitted under securities regulations. As this material has been made available to shareholders prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. prior to this meeting, I propose we waive reading. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is the election of directors. The number of directors of the company is currently set at four. I nominate Paul Antoniadis, Jim Zadra, Joel Marsh, and Michael Thomson as directors to hold office until their next annual election of directors or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed information regarding the nominees is set out on page seven of the Management Information Circular. The persons mentioned have been nominated and are prepared to stand for election as directors. I move that such persons be elected as directors of the corporation to hold office until the next annual meeting or until their successors are elected or appointed. The vote on the election of directors be conducted by ballot. We will now vote on the election of directors. Please raise your hand if you require a ballot and we will hand out the ballot to you. The ballot results are now ready. The results of the ballot are that each of the persons nominated to act as directors of the company received the following votes, and I declare all the nominees elected as directors to serve until the next annual election of directors, or until those successors are elected or appointed. The next item of business is the appointment of auditors and to authorize the directors to fix their remuneration. I move that Deloitte LLP be appointed auditors of the corporation until the next annual meeting and that their remuneration as such be fixed by the Board of Directors. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. The next item of business is to approve amendments to the company's Omnibus Equity Incentive Compensation Plan by way of adoption of a new fixed number Omnibus Equity Incentive Compensation Plan, a copy of which was made available in the information circular relating to this meeting. On November 24, 2021, the TSX Venture Exchange updated Policy 4.4 - Security Based Compensation with respect to the treatment of stock options and other security-based compensation for TSXV-listed issuers. In accordance with the updated policy, on June 13, 2022, the board approved and adopted a new incentive plan that complies with the updated Policy 4.4. The terms of the new incentive plan and the rules of the TSXV provide that the new incentive plan must be approved by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the corporation, excluding the votes attached to common shares owned or controlled by insiders of the corporation to whom options or awards may be granted under the new incentive plan. Accordingly, the shareholders will be asked to pass an ordinary resolution set out on page 15 of the company's Management Information Circular to ratify, confirm, and approve the new incentive plan and to reserve 29,014,495 common shares of the company for issuance under the new incentive plan. I move that the Omnibus Plan resolution, as set out on page 15 of the Management Information Circular, be approved and 29,014,495 common shares of the company be reserved for issuance under the new incentive plan. Is there any discussion on the motion? All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. Is there any other business which the shareholders would like to bring before the meeting at this time? All business of this meeting has now been completed, and I move that the meeting be concluded. All in favor? Any contrary? Carried. I declare this meeting closed, and I thank everyone for attending.
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